From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EGjGl-0007e6-UZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:26:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8HKKjLx031395; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:20:45 GMT Received: from mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8HKJ3eC030554 for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:19:04 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.2] (ool-4353307c.dyn.optonline.net [67.83.48.124]) by mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.06 (built May 11 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IMZ00A4UA0M4B20@mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:24:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:24:18 -0400 From: Mark Loeser Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal In-reply-to: <200509171614.38174.vapier@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <432C7B72.7090505@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary=------------enigB0EC50DD8B177164B4E5B4DA X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <432B4549.1070400@gentoo.org> <432C5EE2.9030503@gentoo.org> <200509171614.38174.vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050815) X-Archives-Salt: c04d7d92-9819-454a-ac0e-eace426c33d7 X-Archives-Hash: 526d30663e1bb5cf69c67e123cfee6d9 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB0EC50DD8B177164B4E5B4DA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 17 September 2005 02:22 pm, Mark Loeser wrote: >>The reason for me adding that bit is the metadata from dev-cpp: >> >>The dev-cpp category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the >>c++ programming language. >> >>Now to me, that means I can find *all* relevant C++ stuff here. If we >>don't want that to be the case, maybe we should say "miscellaneous", but >>why should something be in dev-libs, as compared with dev-cpp? >>net-libs, I could understand, and dev-games, as those could be argued to >>have a direct relation. > > > for generic C++ packages (STLport/boost for example), i can see them being in > the dev-cpp category ... but for packages which have specific uses already > and arent in 'generic' categories, i dont think they should be moved I agree with this, but I think dev-libs and dev-util are generic categories, and moving these packages from there would help users in finding what they need. I think this is what you are saying atleast :) Mark --------------enigB0EC50DD8B177164B4E5B4DA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDLHt2CRZPokWLroQRAvW0AJ0bxVUkl3UErCp0SuloEvLOXvKCPQCcDuL+ 4zzRpMsqyYOkkc4eVn30LTU= =Nzjk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB0EC50DD8B177164B4E5B4DA-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list